Saudha International Literature Festival

This festival preaches the art and beauty of imagination and languages from different cultural heritages through talks, readings, and performances.

Saudha (www.saudha.org) is bringing new literature from different languages and different cultural heritages through this unique festival happening all around the UK.

7 July
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, this session is featuring the absolutely powerful works of an almost forgotten Bengali poet Kaykobad and a few other pre-Tagorian poets from Bengal through poetry-theatres, recitation, and other performances.

4 August
Curated by poet Ahmed Kaysher, this session is featuring both literary and musical works of one of the finest Indian classical music in the UK, Pt Chiranjeeb Chakraborty (https://chiranjeebmusic.com/bio/) through performances and interactive talks. Two very talented performance-poets Shree Ganguly and Tanjina Nur-i Siddique will be performing as well.

Saudha Society of Poetry and Indian Music (www.saudha.org) is a leading platform for South Asian as well other global classical arts. Saudha is critically acclaimed for its series of experimental productions merging poetry, music and painting seamlessly so that each can complement each other. Saudha attracted a diverse source of audiences from all different heritages through its series of presentations of mingling and bridging different arts from different corners of the world as the way of interpreting each other.

Saudha’s production Songs of Sringar and Seduction & Frida Kahlo Through Indian classical music at the Royal Albert Hall has been highly praised by prominent ethno-musicologists, music and literature connoisseurs of the city and beyond.

Saudha’s lyrics of Love at the SouthBank Centre and at Edinburgh Fringe and Chayanaut through Sebastian Bach at the House of Commons, Taste of Twilight at ICCR, Kolkata and the Welsh Parliament were critically acclaimed by major media and musicologists.

During Covid, Saudha took the first ever and historic initiative to connect leading musicians of the globe, writers, poets, painters and filmmakers from all across the world through virtual platforms and the sessions were hugely appreciated by the audiences from all around the globe.

RadhaRaman Society, a sister organisation of Saudha is mainly known for organising a festival of Bengali folk music and dance called RadhaRaman Festival in the North of England (Leeds) since 2010. This also has been hosting Baul and Vaishnav Music festival in London since 2014.

RadhaRaman Society is acclaimed critically and widely for its unique presentations of Bengali Village Operas (Bengali Opera / Jatra Pala) all around the country.